Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
As an industry we have all learned that the landscape of information security evolves rapidly. From attack vectors to the KPI/statistics which really matter for security professionals and leaders change and requires a consistent refresh. I usually refer to Trends in Cybersecurity and Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report to keep up with a consolidated overview of such findings. Microsoft's Trends…
Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains. -Bill Gates. Chairman, Microsoft I recently had an inquiry from an astronomy-buff friend of mine who wanted to introduce his 3rd and 4th Graders to programming. Following Hanselman's advice of how many…
Last week Microsoft has announced that Apache Spark on Azure HDInsight (Microsoft’s managed Hadoop and Spark cloud service) is now generally available. I spoke to Tampa Bay Data Science Group last night regarding Apache Spark on Azure HDInsight and the associated offerings. Spark for Azure HDInsight offers customers an enterprise-ready Spark solution that’s fully managed, secured, and highly available…
Online Data Science Hackathon - Apache Spark Maker Build This is a Global On-line Hackathon that Begins May 23, 2016 and Ends August 3, 2016. Submissions Due August 3rd By 5:00 Pm Est. Build an Apache Spark application to address a real business problem or core concern related to customer care, marketing, risk management or…
If I have to rate typical conversations with machine learning enthusiasts, following queries usually rank at the top: "How do I pick an algorithm for my dataset?" "How do I know which one is the right algorithm to choose for my problem?" "Does logistic regression makes my dataset looks big?" Well, maybe not that last…
The Fallacies of Data Science
1. Correlation = Causation, and Big Data = Information and Insights because Data Context Doesn't Matter.
2. The random nature of the event drives the distribution, therefore the likely distribution also drive the events.
3. Base Rate Fallacy only applies to small data-sets.
“May the queries flow, and the pager stay silent. —Traditional SRE blessing” Like *.js, DevOps / SRE isn’t completely immune from the dilemma of choice, or confusion as a service as some would like to call. Should it be Nagios or Zabbix or Cacti or Zenoss or Borgmon? Regardless of which tool one decides for monitoring usage,…
Apache Spark is a general purpose cluster computing platform which extends map-reduce to support multiple computation types including but not limited to stream processing and interactive queries. Last week IBM's Moktar Kandil presented at the Tampa Hadoop and Tampa Data Science Group Joint meetup on the topic of exploring Apache Spark. Apache Spark for Azure HD-Insight Following are…
Sam just wrote a precis on Why Facial Recognition Is the Next Big Thing in Marketing which outlines how brands are / can use the facial recognition to increase engagement, and therefore sales. From a machine learning and data science perspective, building algorithms which understand what one's face is really saying i.e. performing emotion analysis to find insight into purchasing patterns…
FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) helps students build STEM skills, confidence, teamwork, public speaking skills, and make connections with professionals. I am glad to be part of this effort as a volunteer Coach and mentor for both the First Lego League Jr, and First Lego League Championship. Had to work quite hard to…